TY  - BOOK
ED  - United Nations Development Programme.
ED  - United Arab Emirates.
TI  - Arab Knowledge Report 2009: Towards Productive Knowledge Intercommunication
AV  - HN766.A85 A734 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Abåu òZabåi, [United Arab Emirates]
PB  - United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Arab States
KW  - Quality of life
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Education
KW  - Research
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Knowledge, Sociology of
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - "Sponsored by Mohammed Bin Rashed Al-Makoum Foundation and the UNDP, Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development."; "This work was originally published in Arabic."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-249); Preamble -- Chapter 1: The theoretical framework: Concepts and problematic of the knowledge society -- Chapter 2: Arab knowledge performance environments: Expanding freedoms and building institutions -- Chapter 3: Education and the formation of knowledge capital -- Chapter 4: Information and communications technologies in the Arab countries: The pillars and tools of knowledge -- Chapter 5: Arab performance in research and innovation -- Chapter 6: Building the knowledge society in the Arab world: A vision and a plan
N2  - "With the publication of this first report on knowledge in the Arab region, the United Nations Development Programme/Regional Bureau for Arab States and the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation inaugurate what may be considered one of the most ambitious and competent projects to build and reinforce the knowledge society in the Arab region and to implant there its epistemological, intellectual, and cultural principles, in all their dimensions."--Foreword (p. III)
ER  -